I didn’t read nabla’s comment as accusing the deceased of being an idiot. Rather, it was a statement that the military is full of idiots (aka teenage boys) and therefore any standard issue weapon should be designed appropriately.

A gun that can go off on its own even when handled properly is the opposite of idiot-proof.

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JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | parent [-]

> the military is full of idiots (aka teenage boys)

The Air Force is not. (The average Air Force servicemember is older, better educated, better paid and subject to more demands than the average servicemember in the other branches.)

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bl4ckneon 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I know some people who went into the air force out of high school. They are idiots.

Given a large enough group of people you will have examples of just about anything (including idiots)

Another example, it's estimated that 1-2% of all military members are part of or connected to an illegal gang organization.

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JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I know some people who went into the air force out of high school. They are idiots

Every population has some idiots in it. My point is the Air Force is difficult to get into, has a high fraction of educated servicemembers [1], has lower turnover and higher pay than the other branches. (Back when we measured IQ, the Air Force had a higher average IQ than the other branches and population.)

I know idiots who work at Google. That doesn't it's safe to assume the average person at Google is an idiot.

[1] https://www.collegevine.com/faq/90807/most-educated-branch-o...

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wslh 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure if this is the message you intended, but it's worth noting that having a high IQ doesn't necessarily prevent someone from being an idiot.

Historically the word "idiot" was used particularly with those with very low IQ scores but now is a pejorative term.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Within the context, we’re talking about someone who can be trusted to be mature with a firearm. That’s more true for an average Air Force servicemember than the average American. I’d reflect OP’e scepticism if we were talking about the average Army, Marine or Navy servicemember, in large part because young men are stupid and the folks in those services skew younger than the Air Force.

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hn_acc1 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe - although it seems these days, being fundamentalist/evangelical is about the only hard-and-fast requirement..

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andrewflnr 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even an "intelligent" (i.e. clever) teenage boy or young man is often still an idiot (i.e. prone to astonishingly bad decisions).

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cityzen 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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